'You murdered half my family... I will never forgive you': Devastated teenager confronts the homeless drug addict who killed her mother and brother after they took him off the street and offered him a new life

Lydia Wilkinson, 19, said her life had been ‘obliterated’ by Aaron Barley

She told killer in court: 'You have obliterated my life. I will never forgive you.'

Her father Peter came home from walking to dog and fought with knifeman

He says his wife was a 'compassionate soul' who helped homeless addict

Lydia Wilkinson, 19, and her family took in Aaron Barley off the streets and her then tried to kill them all, successfully murdering her father and brother and attempting to kill her father Peter (pictured together)

A daughter who lost her mother, brother and almost her father at the hands of a killer homeless man confronted him in court and told him: 'I'll never forgive you'.

Lydia Wilkinson, 19, said her life had been ‘obliterated’ by Aaron Barley after her family took him under their wing when they found him sleeping in a box outside their local Tesco.

Barley yesterday admitted stabbing to death her mother, Tracey, 50, and brother, Pierce, 13, at the start of his trial. He had already pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of her father, Peter, 47.

Looking directly at the 24-year-old killer in the dock, she told him: ‘My parents helped you – you repaid them with destruction and heartache. You have obliterated my life, murdered half my family, very nearly all it, and for this I will never forgive you.

‘I was confident and enjoyed life but now grief has taken over. Grief has ruined me. To see the stairs at home, to walk the last path they took tears me up inside.’

Miss Wilkinson was at university when Barley knifed her family in Stourbridge - but admitted yesterday: 'I have no reason to believe I would be here now if I had been at home.

'To lose my mum and brother to such a heinous crime is simply indescribable. At the age of 19 I am facing life without my best friend and the young brother I swore to protect'.

Peter Wilkinson, pictured with his daughter Lydia, had told how he grappled with double killer Aaron Barley after the homeless man murdered his wife and son

Barley (left) killed Mrs Wilkinson and her son Piers (right) after the family tried to help him

Peter Wilkinson was out walking the dog when Aaron Barley sneaked into his home in Stourbridge, West Midlands and murdered Tracy Wilkinson and her son Pierce, 13.

The family had attempted to help Barley after Mrs Wilkinson saw him begging outside a local Tesco store.

But - after they stopped paying for his phone which they had covered the cost of - he returned to their home and unleashed a savage knife attack.

Speaking about the incident before Barley admitted the crimes today, Mr Wilkinson said he has a clear recollection of returning home after his early morning walk to be confronted by Barley.

'I did my normal thing of going out to take the dog for a walk,' Mr Wilkinson said.

'I came back and I can remember looking through the window at the back door of the house, thinking that everybody must have overslept because nobody was up.

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'I opened the back door and, as I did it, he jumped out from behind a wall in the kitchen, all dressed in black, with a big knife held over his head and started stabbing me with it.'

He added: 'From that point I grappled with him for a short period of time and he stabbed me six times - he stabbed me twice in the face, twice in the abdomen and twice in the back.'

Although Mr Wilkinson feared Barley would continue his onslaught, he instead heard the sound of his 4x4 being driven off the property's gravel drive.

Flowers were laid outside the family home following the shocking double murder in March

'You have obliterated my life', daughter tells killer in court

Mrs Wilkinson's daughter Lydia Wilkinson ignored Barley as she read her statement to the court today.

He appeared to try to catch her eye as she walked to the witness stand, but then stared at the floor as she began.

Lydia said: 'To lose my mum and brother to such a heinous crime is simply indescribable.

'At the age of 19 I am facing life without my best friend and the young brother I swore to protect.

'I have no reason to believe I would be here now if I had been at home.

'You have obliterated my life and murdered half my family. For that I will never forgive you.'

Mr Wilkinson added: 'I think I was on the lawn at this time.

'I got up, went into the kitchen and phoned the emergency services, at the time not thinking I was too badly injured.

'Then I remember looking around and seeing this huge trail of blood across the floor, which was my blood. I then went back out into the back garden, sat in a chair and I remember talking to the person on the other end of the phone and realising that I was actually dying.

'I could feel my lungs filling with fluid and I could feel energy draining from me.

'The next thing I remember is ambulances turning up and I can remember hearing helicopters overhead and the police arrived.

'An ambulance man tended to me immediately. I remember him jabbing something into me, which is probably what kept me alive.

'I also remember telling the other ambulance men to go into the house. I remember vividly one coming out behind me and saying 'One deceased and one in cardiac arrest'. I knew at that point that I had most likely lost Tracey and Pierce.'

Still believing he was going to die, Mr Wilkinson was taken by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, where he was given a general anaesthetic and treated for his wounds.

Mr Wilkinson with his daughter and the son he lost in the attack. He said his family has been 'shattered'

Barley was a 'compulsive liar' who had more than 20 convictions to his name

Asked if Barley said anything during the attack, Mr Wilkinson replied: 'He said 'Die you b*****d' as he stuck the knife into me. I said to him, after he'd stabbed me, 'Aaron, we tried to help you' and he stuck the knife into my stomach and said 'Die you b*****d'.'

Explaining that Barley, whose parents died when he was young, was believed to have given no account of the attack to police, Mr Wilkinson added: 'There's no motive, there is no explanation.

'My personal feeling - and this is purely my personal feeling - is that he'd lost his job, he lost his flat.

'And he decided that because his life was going bad ways, he was going to take it out on the people that had cared and looked after him.'

Mr Wilkinson explained how his wife met the homeless 24-year-old outside a supermarket in March last year and took it upon herself to try to help him.

Mr Wilkinson said: 'She was shopping one day at Tesco in Stourbridge and she came out and Aaron was keeping warm in a cardboard box, and she was taken aback by this and decided off the cuff that she wanted to help him.

'She took him in her car to Dudley Council to get help and from that point he lived in a hostel for a few days, organised by my wife.

'Even though he was in a hostel, he had no money and food, so Tracey would organise breakfast and dinner for him every day, be it at our house or somewhere else.'

Peter Wilkinson and his daughter Lydia arrive at Birmingham Crown Court this morning

Mr Wilkinson has detailed memories of conversations with Barley, including one over an evening dinner at his family home.

He said: 'I just tried to get a feeling of what he felt and what he wanted in life.

'I can remember quite vividly him saying to me 'I just need somebody to give me a chance, I need somebody to give me a lucky break'. After that - maybe three or four weeks later - I actually employed him.

'We decided that we would like to help him, so I employed him at one of the businesses that I run down in Newport in South Wales.'

However, Barley, who lived in Newport after taking up the job as a general labourer in April last year, went off the rails in September and left on apparently amicable terms.

Mr Wilkinson recalled: 'He started taking drugs and, as a business, we had to let him go.'

After Barley returned to the West Midlands, he had no contact with the Wilkinsons until early November when he was found asleep on their driveway.

Speaking of Barley's return to their home, Mr Wilkinson added: 'I believe he'd been on the streets and had been badly beaten. My wife, being the compassionate soul that she was, decided that as a family we should help him again. I got him up and made him some tea.

'In a similar vein to what we had done last time, we managed to get accommodation for him. We paid for some accommodation ourselves for him.

'My wife wouldn't see him back on the streets, so over the next couple of weeks we managed to get council accommodation sorted.

'He would do general jobs for us, for other members of my family as well, in order to earn some pocket money for food and cigarettes. He was generally very grateful.'

Explaining that Barley spent Christmas Day with his family, staying for lunch, Mr Wilkinson said: 'I remember he wrote my wife a card saying 'To the mother that I never had'.'

Dramatic CCTV shows homeless man racing away from murder scene in stolen car after he chillingly crawled through garden dressed as a ninja to kill kind-hearted woman who had taken him in and her son, 13

An incredible dashcam video shows a homeless man racing away from a murder scene in a desperate bid for escape after stabbing a woman and her son to death in their home.

Aaron Barley is first seen breaking into the Land Rover in CCTV footage, while a camera mounted to the car shows him driving on pavements and weaving in and out of traffic before finally smashing into a wall.

Chilling CCTV also recorded at the house shows Barley dressed as a ninja prowling around the garden of the kind-hearted woman who had taken him in - moments before stabbing her and her 13-year-old son to death.

Barley, who was fed, helped with accommodation and given a job after Tracey Wilkinson saw him begging outside a Tesco, was recorded crawling on his hands and knees outside the family's £440,000 home in a hood and gloves.

The 24-year-old was even seen waiting for Mrs Wilkinson's husband Peter to leave the home before launching his brutal attack, stabbing Mrs Wilkinson and son Pierce as they slept.

Mr Wilkinson, 47, was also critically wounded in the attack at the home in Stourbridge, West Midlands on March 30, but survived following life-saving surgery.

As he sat bleeding heavily from six stab wounds, he managed to phone the emergency services and spent 11 days in hospital.

Appearing at Birmingham Crown Court today for the first day of his trial, Barley pleaded guilty to two counts of murder.

An incredible dashcam video shows a homeless man racing away from a murder scene (shown) in a desperate bid for escape after stabbing a woman and her son to death in their home

A camera mounted to the car shows Aaron Barley driving on pavements and weaving in and out of traffic before finally smashing into a wall

CCTV footage shows Aaron Barley hiding in the garden of Tracey Wilkinson before sneaking into the back door, picking up a kitchen knife and murdering her and her son Pierce, 13, as they slept. The killer is even seen waiting for Tracey's husband Peter to leave the home before launching his attack

Peter Wilkinson and his daughter Lydia arrive at Birmingham Crown Court this morning

The Wilkinsons had helped Barley off the streets around a year earlier - after Mrs Wilkinson saw him keeping warm in a cardboard box outside a supermarket. They later took him in as a lodger at their home.

Barley, described as a 'chaotic' individual who was known to the police, was even given a job at one of Mr Wilkinson's businesses but left after it was discovered he was back on drugs.

Barley, of no fixed address, stood with shoulders slumped as he admitted two counts of murder.

It is believed that he may have gone on the rampage after a mobile phone contract, which was being paid for him, was cancelled by the family, the court heard.

He spent the night before his double murder skulking around outside the Wilkinson's family home. When Mr Wilkinson went out to walk the dog the following morning, he broke in and used one of the family's kitchen knives to kill.

Pierce was found lying on his front trying to crawl along the floor in his bedroom. He had been stabbed at least eight times with 'severe force' and one of the blows was so strong it 'almost divided his spinal chord'.

Mrs Wilkinson - a former British Latin American ballroom dancing champion - was found naked, not breathing on her bedroom floor. She had been stabbed 20 times.

When Mr Wilkinson returned from walking the dog, Barley - who was 'dressed like a ninja' - stabbed him six times during a struggle. He then drove off in the family's car.

Mr Wilkinson managed to call the emergency services but was convinced he was dying as he sat bleeding heavily.

He only learned his only son was dead after waking from life-saving surgery and the couple's then-18-year-old daughter, Lydia, feared she might lose her entire family.

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Lydia Wilkinson thought she would lose her father as well as her mother and brother after the knife attack

Lydia Wilkinson was faced with the prospect of planning a triple funeral alone as she feared her father would die from his injuries in the days after he was stabbed.

The 19-year-old student had been due to return to Stourbridge to see her family a day after the senseless murder of her mother and brother - but instead found herself rushing to Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

The biology student, who recently began her second year of studies at Bristol University, was told to expect the worst after arriving at her father's bedside and seeing him under sedation.

Miss Wilkinson arrived at the hospital at about 5pm, around three hours after she learned her mother and brother had died.

'They took me to critical care and that was the first time I saw my dad - with countless machines hooked up to him, a lot of doctors around his bed,' she said in a media interview organised through West Midlands Police.

'I remember thinking at that point in time that I was going to lose him as well because nobody could survive that state.'

'I was told that my dad was still in theatre when I found out (about the stabbings) because I found out from my boyfriend ringing me to check if my family were OK.'

Lydia left flowers where her mother and brother died in the days after the murders

Recounting how she found out initial details of what had happened at around 10.30am on March 30, Miss Wilkinson said: 'I remember typing into Google 'Stourbridge, stabbings'.

'The first link showed a photo of my house with police tape around it.